Guild Wars 2

hi arena guys and gals!

i’m not sure why the ascended gear system is being piece mailed and offered like this. y’all should have waited until all systems and options were ready to go. in addition to a high gated time investment, the unnecessary gold sink with ectos and having to earn silly marks or whatever guild points (that currently favor large guilds), players are not able to make informed gear decisions because all of the pieces are not available.

obviously these things had not been planned out far enough ahead of time and is currently being thrown in all willy nilly. i would like to suggest that either total costs are lowered or ectos and guild marks are removed (preferred method considering a bunch of circumstances ranging from play your way no grind game manifesto and legendaries on the tp) from the ascended gear equation. it’s the least you could do to deflect some frustration while you’re still figuring things out and scrambling to get all the ascended gear and methods to obtain them in.

thanks for reading!

postscript, asap (like in the march patch) give the options to zoom out the camera a lot more and disable other players ability/power particle effects because the up close and personal firework shows are giving some players seizures.

love u all!

Swagger.1459:

i would like to suggest that either total costs are lowered or ectos and guild marks are removed (preferred method considering a bunch of circumstances ranging from play your way no grind game manifesto and legendaries on the tp) from the ascended gear equation.

I think it was a great concession to put ascended gear in the game with multiple avenues toward getting the gear and not just one path.

For the accessories, I think the price of the ectos or the guild commendations is good. I mean you do have to do something in game to earn the items.

So right now, for the accessories you can do fractals, do world bosses for rares to salvage, craft rares to salvage for ectos, or do guild missions for guild commendations. That’s 3 different ways to earn 1 item.

I think that’s pretty good compromise. They all require work or commitment of some sort. You just have to choose the one that suits your play style.

They need to add the back pieces with alternate ways to earn them other than just fractals. I’m hoping they are working on that and it’s coming in the future. Like the other ascended pieces, we should have choice on how we earn them, not just limit it to one path.

Halanna.3927:

So right now, for the accessories you can do fractals, do world bosses for rares to salvage, craft rares to salvage for ectos, or do guild missions for guild commendations. That’s 3 different ways to earn 1 item.

Amulets and earrings don’t drop in fractals (nor can be bought for pristine relics), so that makes only two different ways, not three.
And one of the two is (as devs already confirmed) intentionally overpriced to make it unpractical and unappealing.
Basically, you are supposed to get your earrings through guild missions alone. Laurel option was included just for show.

For me earrings are only obtainable via one way and that’s with laurels seeing how I am in a small guild. I just got my first earring last night and let me tell you how pumped I am to know I have to wait another month to get the next one. (30 daily + 1 Monthly) I personally think the amulets should have gone for the 40+50ectos not the earrings. The earrings don’t give you much better stats compared to the amulet.